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The Cramps - Primitive (live 1981 SF) Video

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1981-11-06 On Broadway - San Francisco CA US Cover from The Groupies (ca 1966) that you can hear here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IE6pYY45w34 that is based on a riff from Howlin' Wolf's Smokestack Lightning that you can here here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBLzTD2wTzg from the Target Video Compilation Underground Forces Vol 4 I hope they will release the whole show restored official on DVD one day! Taget link: http://www.targetvideo.blogspot.com/ Lux Interior (Erick Purkhiser) -- vocals Poison Ivy (Kristy Wallace) -- lead guitar Kid Congo Powers (Brian Tristan) -- guitar Nick Knox (Nicholas George Stephanoff) -- drums facebook fanpage with many great pics/concert posters etc. http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Cramps-fanpage/287717201283279?ref=tn_tnmn

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American blues singer, guitarist, harmonica player. A key figure in bridging the early Delta Blues with the more modern Electric Blues. His tutelage on the Mississippi Delta included guitar and showmanship from Charley Patton and harmonica teachings from Sonny Boy Williamson (2). By the end of the 1930s he was a fixture on the Southern Club scene. He was inducted into the U.S. Army on April 9, 1941 and discharged on November 3, 1943. He then moved near West Memphis, Arkansas. In 1948 he formed a...

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